Courtesy of Bradford E. Beckwith, Ph.D.
Curiosity Expert: Bradford E. Beckwith, Ph.D.
Sports Psychologist & University of Phoenix Faculty Member
Dr. Bradford E. Beckwith facilitates science and psychology classes at the University of Phoenix campuses in Milwaukee and Fox Valley, Wisconsin. He also teaches sport psychology classes at Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri and runs a private sports psychology practice where he works with student athletes. Twice inducted into the University of Missouri-St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame, shares his love of baseball with his own three children. He also enjoys teaching the mental side of the game to kids at the Balls N Strikes baseball academy and he serves as the Director of Player Development for The Stars, a program of the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association.
Bradford was first attracted to the University of Phoenix when he taught a degree completion program at Missouri's Tarkio College in the '80s. "I was inspired by the special challenges and rewards that teaching non-traditional students brought to the teaching environment," he explains. After a long career in sports and recreation coaching and management, Bradford earned his PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado in 1990. In his dissertation, "The Interactive Relationship of Attention, Physical Self-efficacy and Anxiety to Hitting Performance in Baseball," Dr. Beckwith examined the idea that one's mental attitude influences physical performance. Today, Bradford explains his approach to sports psychology as two-fold: understanding the positive mental and physical outcomes that result from being engaged in sports, and utilizing psychological techniques to enhance performance and experience.
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